Psychotic Disorders - Therapy
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

[First episode of psychosis intensive early intervention programme versus standard treatment--secondary publication]

3 Oct 2009 A total of 547 patients with a first episode of psychosis were randomised to two years of intensive early intervention programme (OPUS) versus standard treatment. OPUS treatment consisted of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) with manuals for ... Read more...

Clinical outcomes and quality of life in patients submitted to electroconvulsive therapy.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVES: The aims of this study were to evaluate the effect of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) on clinical and quality of life improvement in patients hospitalized at the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre and to compare psychopathology ... Read more...

Randomized controlled trial of interventions for young people at ultra-high risk of psychosis: study design and baseline characteristics.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: Intervention during the pre-psychotic period of illness holds the potential of delaying or even preventing the onset of a full-threshold disorder, or at least of reducing the impact of such a disorder if it does develop. The first step in ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Psychotic Disorders - Therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Postpartum mood disorders: genetic progress and treatment paradigms. 30 Oct 2009
• [First episode of psychosis intensive early intervention programme versus standard treatment--secondary publication] 3 Oct 2009
• Infection, inflammation, and mental illness. The body's immune response to infectious agents may imperil the brain. 29 Sep 2009
• Clinical outcomes and quality of life in patients submitted to electroconvulsive therapy. 30 Aug 2009
• Randomized controlled trial of interventions for young people at ultra-high risk of psychosis: study design and baseline characteristics. 30 Aug 2009
• Mentalization-based psychodynamic psychotherapy for psychosis. 30 Jul 2009
• Cochrane Reviews of non-medication-based psychotherapeutic and other interventions for schizophrenia, psychosis, and bipolar disorder: A systematic literature review. 30 Jul 2009
• Analysis of the creation of 'emptiness', of 'nothingness', in certain types of psychosis. 30 Jul 2009
• Clinical staging: a new scenario for the treatment of psychosis. 30 Jul 2009
• Three index series of electroconvulsive therapy for psychotic depression after orthotopic liver transplantation. 17 Jul 2009
• The effects of crisis plans for patients with psychotic and bipolar disorders: a randomised controlled trial. 7 Jul 2009
• Cognitive behavior therapy for early psychosis: a comprehensive review of individual vs. group treatment studies. 29 Jun 2009
• Alternatives to admission for children and adolescents: providing intensive mental healthcare services at home and in communities: what works? 29 Jun 2009
• Intervention in individuals at ultra high risk for psychosis: a review and future directions. 28 Jun 2009
• Early intervention in psychosis: keeping the body in mind. 30 May 2009
• REDIRECT: cluster randomised controlled trial of GP training in first-episode psychosis. 30 May 2009
• [New legislation on involuntary commitment: one law or two?] 30 May 2009
• Families' experience with seeking treatment for recent-onset psychosis. 30 May 2009
• Chitrachanchala (pictures of unstable mind): mental health themes in Kannada cinema. 30 May 2009
• [Treatment of psychosis in Parkinson] 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Psychotic Disorders'

Definition: Disorders in which there is a loss of ego boundaries or a gross impairment in reality testing with delusions or prominent hallucinations. (From DSM-IV, 1994)

Descriptor UI: D011618

Alternative terms: Psychotic Disorders; Disorder, Psychotic; Disorders, Psychotic; Psychotic Disorder; Psychoses; Schizoaffective Disorder; Disorder, Schizoaffective; Disorders, Schizoaffective; Schizoaffective Disorders; Schizophreniform Disorders; Disorder, Schizophreniform; Disorders, Schizophreniform; Schizophreniform Disorder; Psychosis, Brief Reactive; Brief Reactive Psychoses; Brief Reactive Psychosis; Psychoses, Brief Reactive; Reactive Psychoses, Brief; Reactive Psychosis, Brief;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.700.675;

Online Note: use PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS to search PSYCHOSES 1966-80

History Note: 81; was PSYCHOSES 1963-80

Technical Notes: puerperal psychoses = PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS (IM) + PUERPERAL DISORDERS (IM); psychoses or psychotic disord in children = CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE